# PlayMCP — AI Connector

PlayMCP in the Claude connectors directory: what it exposes, how Claude reaches it, and its verification tier.

Source: https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/playmcp/

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# PlayMCP

Kakao's PlayMCP directory as a single connector

Listed in Claude · Tool count not reported · Verified partner

[Claude connector docs](https://www.notion.so/2189b97b4888803dbbdcef264e7eff58) [kakaocorp.com](https://www.kakaocorp.com)

Overview

## What PlayMCP does

PlayMCP is Kakao's registry of MCP servers, and this connector is the bridge to it rather than a service in its own right. Servers registered in PlayMCP, including Kakao's own, get added to a toolbox and reached through this one connection, so the surface available at any moment depends on what has been added rather than on anything fixed in the listing. The directory records zero published tools, which is consistent with that broker role. The tier is partner. A PlayMCP account is required, and the endpoint refused the probe without stating a reason.

### Who it is for

Korean users pulling Kakao service connectors into a single toolbox.

### Tool surface

No tools of its own are recorded, which fits a broker whose surface depends on which PlayMCP servers have been added, and the endpoint refused an unauthenticated list in any case.

Availability

## Where PlayMCP is listed

PlayMCP is listed in the Claude connectors directory only. KAKAO has no app under the same domain in the ChatGPT directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them.

The MCP server behind a Claude connector is usually the same server a ChatGPT app would need, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one.

Claude listing

## In the Claude connectors directory

PlayMCP reports no tool count in its Claude directory listing. 9 of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors are in the same position, which is far more likely to be a gap in the listing than a server with nothing on it.

Claude-listed connectors filed under Productivity have a median of 12 published tools, so that is the closest thing to an expectation until the endpoint is probed directly.

PlayMCP publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.

Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.

Publisher

KAKAO

Verification

Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)

Filed under

Productivity

Endpoint

`https://playmcp.kakao.com/mcp`

Documentation

[Publisher setup docs](https://www.notion.so/2189b97b4888803dbbdcef264e7eff58)

Snapshot

August 2026

PlayMCP carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.

In the publisher's words

## How KAKAO describes it

> You can add a variety of MCP servers, including Kakao services registered in PlayMCP, to your toolbox and use them through the Connector.

Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.

Nearby

## Other Productivity connectors

### [Help Scout](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/help-scout/)

Help Scout mailboxes and conversations synced into Codex

ChatGPT

### [Alpic](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/alpic/)

Monitoring and debugging for MCP servers on Alpic

Claude · ChatGPT

### [Asana](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/asana/)

Asana work items, priorities and status updates

Claude · ChatGPT

### [Assuric](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/assuric/)

Compliance posture: hazard log, policies, training and evidence

Claude

### [Smallpdf](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/smallpdf/)

PDF conversion and compression inside the chat

ChatGPT

### [smarts.bio: AI for biology](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/smarts-bio-ai-for-biology/)

Run bioinformatics tools and pipelines described in plain language

ChatGPT

[All 760 Productivity connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/)

This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from PlayMCP's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with KAKAO, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.

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